Moloko

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Moloko
General information
origin Sheffield , South Yorkshire , United Kingdom
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Genre (s) Electronica , trip-hop , alternative dance , house , downtempo
founding 1993
resolution 2003
Last occupation
Róisín Murphy
Mark Brydon

Moloko was a British - Irish duo of electronic dance music founded in Sheffield in 1993 , consisting of the Irish singer Róisín Murphy and the British producer Mark Brydon . The band name is an allusion to Nadsat from the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess , in which the protagonists drink "Moloko" ( Russian for milk, молоко) in a bar .

Band history

founding

Before she met Mark Brydon, Róisín Murphy had no experience as a singer and, according to her own statement, had not planned this as a career. Brydon has at this time been known as a member of the British Industrial - radio band Chakk and the 1980 House-Acts Cloud 9 and Krush made and remixed such diverse bands like Eric B. & Rakim and Psychic TV . Both met at a party in Sheffield, where Murphy Brydon addressed with the question "Do you like my tight sweater?" ("Do you like my tight sweater?"), Which would later become the title of the Moloko debut album. After that party, the two became a couple both musically and privately.

Said debut album was released in 1995. The single Fun for Me , on the Batman & Robin - Soundtrack can be found, for the first time made it into the charts. With their mix of funk and dance, Moloko hit the nerve of the time.

The international breakthrough

In 1998 the second album I Am Not a Doctor was released. With a remix of the single Sing It Back , mixed by Boris Dlugosch and Michi Lange , which was released in summer 1999, Moloko landed their most successful release to date. On their wave of success, Moloko released their third studio album Things to Make and Do in April 2000 , from which the internationally successful single The Time Is Now comes from. Murphy later described that Sing It Back's club house mix, despite its success, was the beginning of the end of the band because Brydon produced the song as a ballad and was unhappy with the new version, while Murphy liked it.

Moloko took a long break for the first time before they began work on the next studio album. In the meantime, All Back to the Mine was released in 2001, a double album with old and new Moloko remixes by well-known DJs (including Mousse T. , Matthew Herbert and Ashley Beedle ).

Before the recording of the fourth studio album Statues , which was released in 2003, Murphy and Brydon ended their love affair and went their separate ways privately. However, as Moloko they continued to work together and toured Europe and Australia almost continuously for 18 months after the release of Statues . Live and in the studio, since Things to Make and Do, the pure Brydon / Murphy project Moloko had developed into a real band that played together with a permanent cast. Keyboardist Eddie Stevens in particular played a key role in shaping the band's sound. Statues was more successful in the German album charts than its three predecessors and reached number twelve.

From the last British concert on the Statues Tour on November 22, 2003 at the Brixton Academy in London , the live DVD 11,000 Clicks was released in mid-2004 . Directed by Dick Carruthers, who had previously worked for Led Zeppelin , The Who , Oasis and Portishead .

The future

Murphy released her first solo album, Ruby Blue , in 2005 , which was followed by more. Brydon dedicated himself to smaller projects. In December 2011 there was renewed contact between the two, whereby the deep house title Simulation published on the Internet was recorded.

Live band line-up

  • Singing: Róisín Murphy
  • Bass: Mark Brydon
  • Keyboards: Eddie Stevens
  • Guitar: David Cooke
  • Keyboards: Phil Peskett
  • Drums: Dave De Rose

Awards

  • 2003
    • TMF Awards: "Best International Live Act"
  • 2004
    • Edison Music Awards 2004: "The Best Dance Album ( Statues )"

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1995 Do you like my tight sweater? - - - UK92
silver
silver

(1 week)UK
First published: October 20, 1995
1998 I am not a doctor DE91 (1 week)
DE 		AT30 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH45 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK64 (1 week)
UK
First published: August 24, 1998
2000 Things to Make and Do DE14 (22 weeks)
DE 		AT21 (11 weeks)
AT 		CH25 (21 weeks)
CH 		UK3
platinum
platinum

(29 weeks)UK
First published: April 10, 2000
2003 Statues DE12 (12 weeks)
DE 		AT19 (9 weeks)
AT 		CH26 (8 weeks)
CH 		UK18th
silver
silver

(7 weeks)UK
First published: March 3, 2003

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
2006 Catalog DE98 (1 week)
DE 		- - UK82 (1 week)
UK
First published: July 17, 2006

More compilations

  • 2001: All Back to the Mine
  • 2005: The Music of Moloko 1995-2005 (Promo)
  • 2016: All Back to the Mine: Volume I - A Collection of Remixes (34 mp3 files)
  • 2016: All Back to the Mine: Volume II - A Collection of Remixes (34 mp3 files)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1996 Dominoid
Do You Like My Tight Sweater? 		- - - UK65 (1 week)
UK
First published: February 1996
Fun for Me
Do You Like My Tight Sweater? 		- - - UK36 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: May 1996
1998 The Flipside
I Am Not a Doctor 		- - - UK53 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: June 1998
1999 Sing It Back
I Am Not a Doctor 		DE47 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH18 (17 weeks)
CH 		UK4th
gold
gold

(13 weeks)UK
First published: March 15, 1999
2000 The Time Is Now
Things to Make and Do 		DE49 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH41 (14 weeks)
CH 		UK2
silver
silver

(13 weeks)UK
First published: March 20, 2000
Pure Pleasure Seeker
Things to Make and Do 		- - - UK21 (8 weeks)
UK
First published: July 2000
Indigo
Things to Make and Do 		- - - UK51 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: November 2000
2003 Familiar feeling
statues 		DE72 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT59 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH84 (1 week)
CH 		UK10 (7 weeks)
UK
First published: February 17, 2003
Forever More
Statues 		DE96 (1 week)
DE 		- - UK17 (4 weeks)
UK
First published: June 23, 2003
Cannot Contain These
Statues 		- - - UK97 (1 week)
UK
First published: December 2003

More singles

  • 1995: Moloko EP
  • 1995: Where Is the What If the What Is in Why?
  • 1996: Day for Night
  • 2001: Knee Deepen / Day for Night (12inch-Promo)
  • 2001: Untitled (Mystery vs. Moloko; 12inch Promo)
  • 2005: A Style Suite (Farolfi & Gambafreaks vs. Moloko)

Video albums

  • 2004: 11,000 clicks

Web links

swell

  1. ↑ Olivia Fox; Donnacha DeLong: Moloko - Greek for Wanker. In: SORTED magAZine. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Interview with Róisín Murphy , Zeit.de, July 21, 2016
  3. ↑ Róisín Murphy's official blog with the song Simulation
  4. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  5. ↑ a b UK gold / platinum database